Category Archives: Peter Sloterdijk

Eduardo Mendieta (1963-2025)

Posted on December 31, 2025 by stuartelden

My dear friend Eduardo Mendieta died earlier this month. He taught in the philosophy departments of the University of San Francisco, Stony Brook University and Penn State. There is an announcement from Penn State here, and the news is also reported … Continue reading →

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Peter Sloterdijk, If You Have Never Thought Gray: A Theory of Color – trans. Corey Anderson Dansereau and Robert Hughes, Polity, June 2025

Posted on October 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk, If You Have Never Thought Gray: A Theory of Color – trans. Corey Anderson Dansereau and Robert Hughes, Polity, June 2025 “You’re not a painter if you haven’t painted gray”, declared Paul Cézanne. The same could be said of philosophers: … Continue reading →

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Peter Sloterdijk, Out of the World – Stanford University Press, May 2024

Posted on December 29, 2023 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk, Out of the World – Stanford University Press, May 2024 In this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity’s tendency to refuse the world. Developing the first seeds … Continue reading →

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Books received – Bataille & Breton, Dumézil, Char, Sloterdijk

Posted on May 12, 2020 by stuartelden

The little volume « Contre-Attaque », which brings together documents from André Breton and Georges Bataille; René Char’s Dans l’atelier du poète; some books by Dumézil; and a copy of Sloterdijk’s Infinite Mobilization, which I endorsed.

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Where to start with reading Peter Sloterdijk? – reading guide updated with recent translations

Posted on April 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Where to start with reading Peter Sloterdijk? – my reading guide has been updated with recent translations from Polity. I’d still suggest beginning with either You Must Change Your Life or In the World Interior of Capital, depending on whether you are … Continue reading →

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Two new Sloterdijk translations from Polity – After God and Infinite Mobilisation

Posted on April 28, 2020 by stuartelden

Two new Sloterdijk translations from Polity – After God, translated by Ian Alexander Moore, and Infinite Mobilisation, translated by Sandra Berjan. Here’s the press description for After God. In his Critique of Cynical Reason, Peter Sloterdijk pursued an enlightenment of the … Continue reading →

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Althusser’s 1963 Presentation of Bourdieu and Passeron – translated and introduced in Theory, Culture & Society

Posted on December 5, 2019 by stuartelden

On 6 December 1963 Pierre Bourdieu and Passeron gave a seminar at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. They were introduced by Louis Althusser, and his introduction, translated by Rachel Gomme, along with a commentary by Charlotte Branchu and Derek Robbins has been published in Theory, … Continue reading →

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Peter Sloterdijk in The New Yorker

Posted on March 2, 2018 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk in The New Yorker (via Peter Gratton)

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New Perspectives essay by Peter Sloterdijk on ‘On Pseudonymous Politics: Regarding Implicit and Explicit Misconceptions of Democracy’ (open access)

Posted on September 1, 2017 by stuartelden

New Perspectives has just published an open access essay by Peter Sloterdijk on ‘On Pseudonymous Politics: Regarding Implicit and Explicit Misconceptions of Democracy’ Editor Benjamin Tallis writes: ‘On Pseudonymous Politics: Regarding Implicit and Explicit Misconceptions of Democracy’ is an intervention … Continue reading →

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Books received – Gilot, Boehringer and Lorenzini, Debrix, Chimisso, Merleau-Ponty, Sloterdijk, Stratford, Johnston and Sidaway

Posted on June 8, 2017 by stuartelden

A pile of recently received books, many in recompense for review work. The Chimisso and Merleau-Ponty are for the Foucault and Canguilhem projects; but also second-hand copies of Françoise Gilot’s biography Life with Picasso, and Boehringer and Lorenzini’s collection on … Continue reading →

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